Chile 1964-1973 A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead excerpted from the book Killing Hope by William Blum When Salvador Allende, a committed Marxist, came within three percent of winning the Chilean presidency in 1958, the United States decided that the next election, in 1964, could not be left in the hands of providence, or democracy. Washington took it all very gravely. At the ...

Banishing The Myths The stereotypes that Pinochet generated after his coup still haunt the political future of Latin America ...